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Book SynopsisSome 10 million years in the future, in a galaxy heavily populated by humans and other advanced species, a thousand trustworthy humans and their cloned offspring have been granted an incredible power that they may preserve a peace that has endured for eons. They can build worlds wherever they wish and can terraform any wasteland. But the arrival of a woman as old as the great peace itself brings uncertainty and fear. For she brings with her a warning: the tale of an ancient crime that threatens to destroy the peace that has been so carefully crafted.
A far-future epic of god-like humans and their colossal blunders, SISTER ALICE is a novel of incredible imagination from the author of the acclaimed MARROW.
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Trade ReviewThe pace is almost flawlessly judged ... SISTER ALICE has more than enough unique qualities ..to render any comparisons an inadequate measure of its worth * STARBURST *
Robert Reed is the new century's most compelling SF voice * STEPHEN Baxter *
Compelling, exhilarating, ambitious * SFX 'A brilliantly, elegantly crafted tale’ *
Dreamwatch * ‘An exhilarating ride, in the hands of an author whose aspiration literally knows no bounds’ *
